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Scenes & backgrounds

Swap the background

Keep the person, change the place. The subject from your first image gets moved into the scene from your second, with the edge work, spill light and contact shadows handled automatically — the parts that used to take a pen tool and twenty minutes of patience.

  • Clean cut-out around hair, glasses and fine edges
  • Subject relit to match the new environment
  • Contact shadow so they sit in the scene, not on it
  • Any background: a stock photo, a location shot, or a plain colour
Example output from the Swap the background tool
Three steps

Nobody should need a masking tutorial to make one photo out of two

The old way was an hour of pen tool, feathering and shadow painting. This is the same job, described in a sentence.

  1. 01

    Drop in your images

    Two to four files, JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 12 MB each. The first one you add sets the lighting and camera angle for the result, so lead with the shot you like most.

  2. 02

    Say what you want

    One sentence in plain English — who goes where, which light wins, what must not change. Or skip the typing and pick a preset that already contains the right instruction.

  3. 03

    Download the result

    About ten seconds later you get a single image at full resolution. Not quite there? Tweak the sentence and run it again — the second attempt is usually the one.

Questions

About swap the background

Specific to this tool, answered plainly.

No. Separation happens from the image itself, so an ordinary photo against an ordinary wall works. A busy background that's the same colour as your subject's clothing is the one case where you'll want a better source.

Your first ten merges are free

That's ten real results at full quality — enough to know whether this belongs in your workflow. No card, no trial countdown, no call with anyone.

Swap the background | Best Image Combiner